This Wiggling Robot Could Chase You on Land and Underwater
Copying one of Mother Nature’s designs is a clever shortcut when building robots that need to navigate our complex…
These Precision Parts 3D-Printed From Fake Moon Dust Bring Us One Step Closer to Living on Mars
Mars is lacking in the vast supply of natural resources we’ve come to rely on here on Earth, and astronauts attempting…
A Planned FDA Study Could Clear the Way for Fewer Dogs Used and Killed in Animal Research
Dogs have been everything we’ve ever needed them to be, including volunteers for clinical trials of drugs meant for…
You've Come a Long Way, Disembodied Robot Baby
Over the last seven years, Affetto, a “child-type android” created by researchers at the University of Osaka, has…
Scientists Made a Remote-Control Dog Using Its Love of Chasing Things
Point the red dot of a laser anywhere near a dog, and they’ll obsessively chase and stalk it for hours. So researchers…
The Sailors Who Hunt Garbage for Science
Emily Penn had a mission: To find a piece of trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch large enough to stick a satellite…
Latest Boston Dynamics Video Proves the Robot Uprising Will Be Shockingly Nimble
Do you remember the Boston Dynamics robots videos of just a few years ago? It was a big deal that robots like Atlas…
This Ladder-Climbing Robot Snake Freaks Me Out Even More Than the Real Thing
I’ve never been able to quite figure out why I hate snakes, but my disdain of slithering serpents extends to the robot…
Imagine What This One-Handed, Rubik's Cube-Solving Robot Could Do With a Deck of Cards
Rubik’s Cube-solving robots are far from a new idea. In fact, while the human record holder can solve a cube in just…
Finally, a Humanoid Robot With an Electric Screwdriver Hand
It’s been a few years since Japan’s AIST updated its HRP humanoid robot line. While the last iteration, HRP-4C, strived…
The Earth's Memory Is Locked in Ancient Seafloor Muck
The Earth does not forget. Meteor impacts, nuclear detonations, Ice Ages, earthquakes: The memories of them all are…
European Scientists Have Made an Intriguing Discovery in Alzheimer's Drug Research
Scientists in the UK and Sweden believe they’ve come across an unprecedented advance in Alzheimer’s disease research: A…
This AI Fakes Footage to Make It Look Like You Have Bruno Mars' Dance Moves
By now we’ve got lots of worrying examples of how AI-powered image processing software can flawlessly alter faces, or…
Doctors Aren't Being Candid About the Money They Get From Big Pharma
Physicians who get paid extra by pharmaceutical and medical device companies often aren’t forthcoming about the money…
March of Dimes Pulls Millions in Funding From Unsuspecting Scientists, Blames Budget Problems
One of the most famous charity organizations in the world—the March of Dimes—has suddenly become much less charitable…
MIT's New AI-Powered Software Can Extract Individual Instruments From Videos With a Single Click
An instructor of mine once compared mixing a song to baking a cake. The various tracks are the ingredients, and once…
AI and Carbon Nanotubes Are Now Being Used to Improve the World's... Keyboards?
When it comes to groundbreaking research, there are two fields that seem to occupy the newscycle: carbon nanotubes and a…
Nvidia Is Using AI to Perfectly Fake Slo-Mo Videos
One of the hardest video effects to fake is slow motion. It requires software to stretch out a clip by creating…
The Invisible Radio Waves All Around Us Let MIT's New AI See People Right Through Walls
The information age has generated far more data than humanity can ever hope to manually process, but with the help of…
The Hypnotic Wavy Fins on This Swimming Alien-Like Robot Make It Agile as Hell
Replicating the complicated muscle structure that allows fish to wiggle their bodies and dart through the water is no…